A retired colonel reputed for constant criticism of the Nigerian government’s handling of the Boko Haram insurgency has reportedly been arrested and kept incommunicado by the secret police.
Activists and family friends told Anadolu Agency that retired army colonel Husseini Monguno was arrested on Feb. 13 shortly after he granted a media interview reviewing Nigeria’s counterinsurgency strategies in the country’s northeast.
“They have since kept him incommunicado. Family members and his lawyer have had no access to him, while members of his immediate family are being threatened to remain silent,” Fulan Nasrullah, a security expert and family friend to Monguno, told Anadolu Agency on Saturday.
“The DSS (Directorate of State Security, or the secret police) despite enquiries have refused to formally confirm that they hold him, but informally they have sent emissaries to threaten the family to not talk to the press or make noise about his detention,” Nasrullah added.

He said no formal charges have been brought against him.

An online campaign titled #FreeHusseiniMonguno gained momentum on Twitter on Saturday, with activists flaying what they called a resort to draconian measures to silence critics of the government.
Dan Borno, another prominent online personality, condemned on Saturday the continuous detention of the retired soldier.
“Arrest without trial is undemocratic. The government should free Husseini Monguno or charge him to court,” the activist said.
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Anadolu Agency’s attempt to speak with his wife proved abortive.
Monguno has repeatedly decried government’s claim of having “technically defeated Boko Haram”, although his criticism of government’s handling of the insurgency dated back to the Goodluck Jonathan years.
The Nigerian government has claimed technical defeat of the militants but analysts like Monguno insist such claim is far-fetched in the face of continuous bombings and attacks on civilian targets in remote villages.
Monguno has also accused army authorities of always downplaying or denying the killing of soldiers by militants.
Spokesman of the secret police Tony Opuiyo could not be reached for comment.


https://www.today.ng/news/national/82629/dss-detains-ex-colonel-over-boko-haram

Okay.

This man is a distraction on the War on Terror. He should be kept where he is,until he learns how to shut up.

Welcome to Hitler Gestapo era

Am I really safe in this country for exercising my right to freedom of speech?

Ecoterrorism:
Am I really safe in this country for exercising my right to freedom of speech?

Stop making noise.

Source?

APC is busy chasing rat while their house (Nigeria and its econony) is on fire. May they not visit NL cos somany people may likely be fogotten in Kuje prison. Am serriously afriad of this word CHANGE now

HungerBAD:
Okay.

This man is a distraction on the War on Terror. He should be kept where he is,until he learns how to shut up.

Imagine if the likes of Lai Mohammed and El Rufai were gagged by Gej government when they were criticising the counter insurgency will they have been able to attain this position?



The man died that kept silent while evil rule

Ecoterrorism:
Imagine if the likes of Lai Mohammed and El Rufai were gagged by Gej government when they were criticising the counter insurgency will they have been able to attain this position?



The man died that kept silent while evil rule

The man died?laughing.

Don't even throw that Soyinka's line here. This man was in the Military and should know criticism of a military operation,is a morale killer for the troops.

I have no complaints with what is happening to him.

HungerBAD:
Okay.

This man is a distraction on the War on Terror. He should be kept where he is,until he learns how to shut up.

Imagine if the likes of Lai Mohammed and El Rufai were gagged by Gej government when they were criticising the counter insurgency will they have been able to attain this position?



The man died that kept silent while evil reign

HungerBAD:


The man died?laughing.

Don't even throw that Soyinka's line here. This man was in the Military and should know criticism of a military operation,is a morale killer for the troops.

I have no complaints with what is happening to him.

Tell me more about those Nazi war criminals who were hanged by Allied forces for keeping quiet and supporting Hitler murdering innocent souls.


Never you fail to speak up and condemn evil

Affter1:


Stop making noise.

Is that all you can muster, I dare you to engage in an intellectual discourse on this topic

Ecoterrorism:
Is that all you can muster, I dare you to engage in an intellectual discourse on this topic

I dont have the time to waste on a tribal bigot like you, you contribute nothing to nairaland than insulting everyone and stalking omenka. Shame

HungerBAD:
Okay.

This man is a distraction on the War on Terror. He should be kept where he is,until he learns how to shut up.

This dude is just aweful..... he encourages draconian rules? in a democratic country Shit some people has been madly brain washed... this dude need to be kept in check... he's losing it

Affter1:


Stop making noise.

I know who bears dis moniker... damn

Affter1:



I dont have the time to waste on a tribal bigot like you, you contribute nothing to nairaland than insulting everyone and stalking omenka. Shame

Told you that this topic was above your intellectual comprehension and you beat the 60 second clock by proving me right under 29 seconds


Lalasticlala come and push this to FP because free speech is on trial

Affter1:



I dont have the time to waste on a tribal bigot like you, you contribute nothing to nairaland than insulting everyone and stalking omenka. Shame

Told you that this topic was above your intellectual comprehension and you beat the 60 second clock by proving me right under 29 seconds


Lalasticlala come and push this to FP because free speech is on trial.

HungerBAD:
Okay.

This man is a distraction on the War on Terror. He should be kept where he is,until he learns how to shut up.

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

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Ecoterrorism:
Told you that this topic was above your intellectual comprehension and you beat the 60 second clock by proving me right under 29 seconds


Lalasticlala come and push this to FP because free speech is on trial.

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Go and play with sand, you are disgracing yourself here.

HungerBAD:
Okay.
This man is a distraction on the War on Terror. He should be kept where he is,until he learns how to shut up.

Just know that the day you or one of your family members is picked up and detained, this is the same way people would shrug and justify it.

You don't have to kiss Buhari's ass all day. It won't hurt to say the truth when he has erred. He swore to protect the constitution and this is what we get

I expect issues like this and others like harassment/beating up of civilians by soldiers to be on d rise again cos we are once more slipping back to a dictatorship.
Court orders are already selectively being obeyed,there has been a bill to gag d social media.

HungerBAD:
Okay.

This man is a distraction on the War on Terror. He should be kept where he is,until he learns how to shut up.

bBut when he was saying these things in the past administration, it was good, he was saying the truth, he was with the opposition but now he is a distraction to the war against terror? People like you are what is wrong with the system, people like you are evil who pervert truth, speak lies and manipulate people by sspreading falsehood.PMB is not bad, it is people like you who goad, and push people into destructive paths.

at least next time he will cogitate very well before start making jocular remark and besides the write up was also full of irrational.

ApcSucks:


I know who bears dis moniker... damn

Ishiamu, get lost.

Affter1:


Ishiamu, get lost.

I thought as much LoLzzz...

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ApcSucks:


If there's a coward on NL is definitely you that has over 50 monikers

Na descartes fit you cos me n u no be mate I go ignore you from now

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You are jobless and think everyone must have different monikers like you. I have my only after1 and 1after brand, you can continue to disgrace yourself with that your big ugly lips like 40 yard ankara. Shameless coward.

wat do u expect from an unrepentant tyrrant buari dullard will set a new record n surpass, hitler, sadam huseini n idi amin as d most represive backward regime eva in africa. Smh

Cc: lalasticlala

Affter1:


Ishiamu, get lost.

Please who is this misguided fellow